While reading my Choose Your Own Adventure Book, I was struck by the number of possible endings and how they greatly vary. Many of the endings given involved me being eaten by snakes or wolves, or burned at the stake. Others involved me meeting a family with whom I worked with for the rest of my life. Another ending was that I met a girl named Michelle, ran off with her, and find the "Forbidden Castle" where we live forever. These variations in resolution fluctuate depending upon the choices I, as the reader, make throughout the story. After reading "The Abominable Snowman" as well as "The Forbidden Castle" for my CYOA Forms of Narrative Project, I was intrigued by the idea of choosing how I want to proceed in a given narrative. I found a website online which calls itself "Choose Your Own Adventure," yet it has no affiliation with the books themselves. The warning at the beginning of the game reads, "This game is not suitable for children. Some story choices contain language and situations that some adults may find offensive. This story is written by visitors to the site, and is largely unmoderated. Please do not use this in the classroom." On this website you are able to make decisions much more quickly because after each prompt of the story, you are given a choice. The first prompt at the beginning reads, "You're sitting at home, minding your own business, when someone knocks at your door..." and then you are always asked, "What will you do?" I found this website to be incredibly entertaining and funny. It is completely absurd in it's prompts and it's choices, which makes the game difficult to quit. At one point in the game, I died. I figured that was the end of my game and I would have to start over, yet the "What will you do?" question remained giving me two choices, "Go to Heaven" or "Go to Hell." After a few rounds of playing this game, I do advise that some parts (as the warning declares) are a bit obscene. I just thought it was a good way of looking at how we are able to choose our own "adventures" in narrative in different ways.

http://www.iamcal.com/games/choose/room.php